The United States was the country most affected by pandemic Covid-19with 1.2 million deaths, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
The United States has restricted access to covid-19 vaccines and removed the recommendation for healthy children and pregnant women, the Secretary of Health, Robert Kennedy Jr. announced, classifying the decision as “common sense”.
“I am very pleased to announce that, as of today, the covid-19 vaccine for healthy children and pregnant women was removed from the vaccination schedule recommended by disease control and disease prevention (CDC),” said the ruler, an assumed skeptic about vaccines, in a video on the X social network.
This announcement follows to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) (Drug Regulatory Entity) last week.
The drug authorities announced that the agency would only recommend vaccination against Covid-19 for people 65 or older, or for those who, aged between six months and 64, have at least one risk factor to develop a severe form of the disease.
This change aims to align US guidelines with those of other major regions, including those of the European Union, justified the authorities. This decision comes at a time when Robert Kennedy Jr. intends to reform the country’s vaccination policy.
The FDA announced last week that the United States will require pharmaceutical companies to conduct clinical tests about the benefits of covid-19 vaccines for healthy people under 65.
The goal, they say, will be to determine the benefits and risks of annual vaccination against Covid-19 in people who are not at risk, in a political decision that is causing concern among several experts in the country.
For example, Paul Offit, a US pediatrician and vaccine expert, warned that change can restrict access to reinforcement vaccines for people who still need them, especially in the US private health system, where insurers can refuse to comply with them.
The health official is accused of feeding the distrust of Americans in vaccination by repeatedly spreading false information about Covid-19 vaccines and measles.
During the pandemic, in 2020, Robert Kennedy Jr. made statements considered unacceptable by experts, mentioning that the covid-19 vaccines were the “most lethal ever made” and that the virus had a “ethnic target” to harm black and white people, sparing “Chinese and Askenan” (askenants are the Jewish and the Leste’s Jewish community. European).
